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Romain Rolland Quotes

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: french
Birth: January 29, 1866 - December 30, 1944

Topics

Man Financial Know Animals Last

From the time I sang my first solo in church when I was probably 12 years old, I was bitten by the bug. From that point on, I never wanted to do anything else.

Time Church Never First Anything

The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.

Red Guilty Squirrel Petty More Gray

It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies, who rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and that the passage of the Sun and the planets through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, marks man's progress in time and in space.

Knowledge Time Progress Man Space

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying.

Creative People Find India Listen

I've never felt competitive; I'm not a competitive person. In general, I try not to be!

Person Try Never Competitive General

The biggest bit of advice that I've ever received, and something that I've seen and experienced, is that, 'You can fail, and that's OK - just keep going.'

Keep Going Advice You Fail Going OK

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

Roy H. Williams

Good Value Story Without Good Story

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

Joyce Carol Oates

Me Interesting Sometimes Will Own

The problem for me is that 'Watchmen,' one of the great comics of all time, is a look at superheroes that has gone beyond the concept of or necessity for superheroes.

Great Time Me Problem Look Beyond

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.

Jonathan Frakes

Time Day Preparation Interesting Now

The only advice I can give is to surround yourself with people who are friends and people who believe in you and your material and who are going to help you take it to the next level. It doesn't mean you don't listen to criticism, but you listen to it and edit it, and you figure out what you can take.

Yourself Surround Yourself People You

The difference between a regular camera and a 3D camera, for an actor, is really no different except that the turn-arounds are longer. It takes a lot longer to set up a shot because the cinematographer is really trying to set up a whole world, so it can't be more intricate and more beautiful to the viewers, in 3D.

Beautiful World Camera Trying Actor

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